Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas : Intercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Marc André Bernier, Clorinda Donato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernier, Marc André, editor.

Donato, Clorinda, editor.

Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen, editor.

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--America--History--17th century--Sources.

Jesuits.

Jesuits--America--History--18th century--Sources.

Anthropology--America--History--17th century.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--America--History--18th century.

Enlightenment.

Spain--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

Spain.

Spain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

France--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

France.

France--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Linking Jesuit texts, the rhetorical tradition, and the newly emerging anthropology of the Enlightenment, this collection traverses the vast expanses of Old and New World France and Spain in fascinating new ways.

Contents:

Part I. Intercultural transfers. A peculiar idea of empire : missions and missionaries of the society of Jesus in early modern history / Girolamo Imbruglia

The politics of writings, translating, and publishing. New world histories in Post-expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilgi's 1784 Saggio di storia Americana / Clorinda Donato

Imagining the kingdom of Quito: reading history and national identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del reino de quito / Eileen Willingham

For love of Patria : locating self and nation in Clavigero's rendition of the conquest of Mexico / Beatriz de Alba-koch

Between ethnology and romantic discourse : Martin Dobrizhoffer's History of the abipones in a (post)modern perspective / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

From sacred rhetoric to the republic of letters : Jesuit sermons in seventeenth-century new Spain / Perla Chinchilla Pawling

The role of culture and art in France's colonial strategy of the seventeenth century / Sara E. Melzer

Part II. Intellectual disputes. Jose BasÍlio da Gama's epic poem O Uraguay (1769) : an intellectual dispute about the Jesuit state of Paraguay / Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier

Changing perspectives : the other, the self, the in-between of the Jesuit experience in the eighteenth century / Ute Fendler

East from Eden : domesticating exile in Jesuit accounts of their 1767 expulsion from Spanish America / Karen Stolley

"Ils estoient si subjects á leur bouche" : la Relation de 1616 face á la topique antijesuite / Isabelle Lachance

Les Relations des jesuites et la construction de l'observateur europeen face au monde indigene / Klaus-Dieter Ertler

Une rhetorique du silence : l'oeuvre jesuite dans la Description de la louisiane du recollet Louis Hennepin / Catherine Broue

Part III. Textualities. L'heritage de Jose de Acosta / Pierre Berthiaume

La Nouvelle-France dans l'imaginaire jesuite: terra doloris ou Jerusalem celeste/ Marie-Christine Pioffet

The legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Enlightened / Margaret R. Ewalt

Pierre Pelleprat's accounts of the Jesuit missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655) / Real Ouellet and Marc Andre Bernier

Dans le sillage du pere Joseph-François Lafitau : les Avantures de Claude Le Beau / Andreanne Vallee

Postface : De l'usage de la comparaison dans les ecrits des Jesuites sur les Ameriques / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink.

Notes:

Papers based on proceedings of two seminars held at the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies of the William Andrews Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Universite du Quebec à Trois-Riviere.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6349-9

1-4426-6348-0

OCLC:

893231674